[JDEV] about encoding

[Jau-Lung Huang]

> Practically encoding all the session in UTF8 is what makes the most sense,
> you don't have to infringe the XML specification, you stay within reasonable
> bounds, all parsers are supposed to handle UTF8 and this doesn't add an 
> extra penalty for all the protocol related messages like UTF16, and ensure
> cheaper processing on the servers (not to be neglected !).
Hi...

Thanks your detail explanation to let me learn much
But I think that you missunderstand my problem ;)
now I use utf8 to encoding the big5 chinese message in xml stream.
like this:

send out encoding
big5 message -> utf-8 encoding -> format to xml

get in decoding
xml -> utf-8 decoding -> big5 message

this way work fine
but i think whether i can express what the original native encoding is
before doing utf-8 encoding process in xml.

like example above , is there any way to express that its original
encoding is BIG5
I ever think that use unicode to solve the multilingual problem
But I found that some environment still didn't support unicode.
so I hope find a way to express the message's original encoding to mix
the usage of unicode and other native language encoding.

welcome your suggestion  and comment
Thanks you anyway.

Jau Lung Huang